AZ Landscape case studies
AZ Landscape · Put your knowledge to work in context.
AZ Landscape is a breadth-first Azure exam: instead of drilling into a single workload, it asks you to reason across the whole platform - cloud concepts and the Azure architecture (regions, availability zones, resource hierarchy), compute and hosting models, networking and hybrid connectivity, storage and data movement, identity and security posture, governance and cost control, analytics, AI and integration services, and monitoring and resilience. It suits architects, consultants, and senior administrators who already touch several services and need to choose between them rather than configure one deeply. The AZ Landscape case studies are 5 cases and about 3,918 words.
1Rendering Platform: Choosing a Hosting Model Under Burst, Idle, and Timeout Constraints
Fabrikam Media runs an image-rendering platform made of three tiers: a REST API, a render worker, and a nightly ingest batch. All three currently run on 12 always-on D-series VMs averaging 18 percent CPU.
740 words, about 4 min2Hub-and-Spoke over ExpressRoute: When a Private Endpoint Call Times Out
Contoso connects its Chicago datacenter to Azure over a 1 Gbps ExpressRoute circuit that terminates in a hub VNet in East US 2. Spokes host prod, nonprod, and dev workloads, and a fourth spoke runs in West Europe.
770 words, about 4 min345 TB in Six Weeks: Data Movement, Tiering, and Access in One Design
Northwind Productions holds 45 TB of video masters on an on-premises NAS. Everything must be in Azure within six weeks.
801 words, about 4 min4Fourteen Standing Global Admins: Sequencing an Identity Hardening Plan
Litware has 2,400 employees synced from on-premises Active Directory through Entra Connect. Security defaults are disabled and Conditional Access is not used at all; MFA is enforced by an on-premises policy that only applies to VPN logins.
764 words, about 4 min5A Nine-Hour Outage: Closing the Gap Between Stated RTO/RPO and the Design
Tailspin's order system runs in West Europe: an App Service plan with six instances, Azure SQL Database Business Critical zone-redundant, Service Bus Premium, and a Storage account using RA-GRS. A regional incident last quarter took orders down for nine hours.
843 words, about 4 min